That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.
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The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
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The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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